Stockton Wheel was established in 1883 by the Holt brothers, who moved to Stockton from San Francisco because the weather on the bay would not allow the wooden wheels they built to properly cure. They earned a nationwide reputation for outstanding quality and innovation, building strong, dependable wheels and developing solutions for special applications.

One of the problems they solved was that much of the fertile loam in the Delta area couldn't be properly farmed, the spongy peat soil would not support a tractor. Even horses wearing special one-foot wide shoes would bog down.

An early attempt to solve this was a tractor with six, 6-foot wide drive wheels on the rear axle. This behemoth would travel on the bog all right, but they couldn't get it to the fields. At 46-feet, it was too wide to cross the bridges that dotted the Delta.

Years earlier, an English inventor had been experimenting with a track-laying vehicle, but it had big problems. It couldn't turn. Benjamin Holt took that abandoned concept and made it work. He called his new machine the "Caterpillar Tractor." Maybe you've heard of it.

Stockton Wheel is still solving problems for their customers. Now their concentration is on custom designed wheels for street rods, and doing it right. Anybody can weld a wheel, all it takes is a welder. You can even do it out of your house. The trick is to make sure it's round when you're through and that it stays together after you put it on your vehicle. It helps when you're committed to do the kind of job you would want for your own car.

The crew at Stockton Wheel have a vast knowledge of wheels. It's hard to stump them when you ask what the OEM wheel was and what were the options for a specific car. They will build a wheel to your specs, but if you want it authentic, they are the authorities.

If you're building a street rod or "restoring" some street muscle, you owe it to yourself to give Frank a call. You don't have to settle for the wrong wheels just because they're close to right.   SWS